New clues revealed in demise of star athlete discovered close to San Diego seaside

New clues have emerged within the mysterious demise of a star San Diego volleyball participant discovered useless within the ocean at a well-liked seaside.

Summer season Nash, 34, was found floating within the water close to Ocean Seaside Pier on June 18 by lifeguards who recovered her physique and pronounced her useless on the scene, in keeping with the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Workplace.

The reason for the highest athlete’s demise stays below investigation.

Nash was carrying a bikini and lengthy sleeve shirt when her lifeless corpse was discovered washed up close to shore on the south facet of Ocean Seaside Pier, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner revealed Thursday.

The spokesperson stated the Medical Examiner might take months to find out how Nash died. Nash’s mates stated she was a powerful swimmer who was studying to surf.

It wasn’t clear if a surfboard was discovered with Nash’s physique or if she have been browsing on the time of her demise.

The highly effective Pacific ocean swells that claimed the lives of beach-goers in Laguna and Santa Cruz have been nonetheless pounding California seashores on the day Nash died.

Nash’s physique was discovered close to the seawall south of Ocean Seaside Pier, the place the sturdy currents from a well-liked surf break there push seashells ashore.

Nash was an completed volleyball participant who performed for San Diego State and Florida Worldwide universities earlier than transitioning into teaching roles for lauded volleyball applications at Florida State and Stanford universities.

Nash appeared to have final coached at Stanford in the course of the 2022-23 season.

Now, as mates and family members grapple along with her sudden demise, questions are swirling about what occurred.

Deitre Collins, Nash’s longtime good friend and head coach at SDSU, instructed The California Submit that family members are buzzing with hypothesis over how she might have died.

“I simply hope foul play wasn’t concerned,” stated Collins.

Collins stated Nash was an integral member of SDSU’s championship volleyball group and was beloved by each participant she shared the courtroom with.

“It’s been superb by way of the quantity of people that have come out to simply discuss what a particular human being she was,” stated Collins of Nash. “She deserves all of that.”

Matt Olson, government director of San Diego’s WAVE Seaside Volleyball membership, instructed The Submit he labored with Nash for years.

He referred to as her a “great coach” for the membership volleyball group and “one of many nicest individuals I’ve ever met in my life.”

Olson described Nash as a really bodily participant who may “hit the snot out of the ball.”

“Folks didn’t serve her as a result of they have been terrified of her physicality and her skill to crush the ball,” he stated.

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After her faculty sports activities profession Nash transitioned to teaching seaside volleyball and lately started to apply browsing on the SoCal seashores she thought-about residence.

Olson stated he took her browsing a number of years in the past, however she had a “tough outing.” Nonetheless, he wasn’t stunned that she threw herself into the game.

San Diego volleyball coach Nicholas Mercer stated a few of Nash’s mates have speculated that she died in a browsing accident.

“The final time I talked to Summer season, just a few months in the past, she stated she was studying browsing,” stated Mercer, who coached Nash on the professional volleyball circuit and stated she was his finest good friend.

Mercer stated members of Nash’s household are planning a personal ceremony to have fun her life, whereas her mates from the seaside are engaged on a public tribute.

“We’re making an attempt to get a celebration going for her mates,” stated Mercer.